Tinnitus Monthly
🌎 Tinnitus research and device news from around the world — translated into plain English.
September 2026 · Issue No. 1
Most tinnitus coverage swings between breathless hope and blanket dismissal, and most of it only reads what was published in English. Tinnitus Monthly sits in the middle and looks wider: research from Europe, Asia, and Latin America alongside the US, what the evidence actually says, and what you can do today. Free, once a month, no selling.
The Evidence File
A nasal spray best known for labor and social bonding produced two encouraging small studies for tinnitus in 2017. The trial meant to confirm them enrolled 33 people at a major American medical center — and returned no data at all. The record is public, and almost nobody has read it.
Read the articleLiving With It
Your doctor knows you have it because you told him. Tinnitus is invisible in the medical sense — and invisible socially, which is the part that shapes a life. Thirty years in, on the loneliness that does not require being alone.
Read the essayTry It
Relax. Notice. Let go. A free practice you can do right on the page with headphones — calm music, a moment of noticing your tinnitus, and a soft sound to help you let it sit in the background. New, untested in studies, and honest about it.
Try the practiceOne treatment, drug, or claim taken apart against the primary sources — including the trials that quietly went nowhere.
New studies from Europe, Asia, and Latin America that English-language coverage misses, with the country, journal, and DOI named.
What is actually shipping, what it costs, and what the trial behind it did and did not show. Commercial interests flagged every time.
A widely repeated claim about tinnitus, checked against the literature and answered plainly.
First-person essays from thirty years inside this — the exam room, the dinner table, the two-in-the-morning part. No citations required.
Your questions answered peer to peer — and your stories read properly, by someone thirty years in. Write to me.
I have lived with tinnitus for more than thirty years. In that time I have watched the same cycle repeat: a promising early study gets amplified into a cure, people spend money and hope on it, nothing is confirmed, and the disappointment hardens into a belief that nothing works at all. Both halves of that cycle are wrong, and both are avoidable if somebody reads the record carefully and reports it honestly.
That is the whole job here. No products, no affiliate links, no treatment recommendations — a monthly read of what the science says, and an archive you can search when you want to check something for yourself.
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This is not only an American problem. More than 740 million people live with tinnitus worldwide, and over 120 million of them have a severe form. Prevalence runs from about 5% in Africa to nearly 22% in South America — and almost everything written about what this condition does to a life is written in English.
I would like to change that. If you would read Tinnitus Monthly in another language, tell me which one — that is how I will decide what gets translated first.
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